Mohammed Alser

May 2023: A reviewer for Switzerland's Research Partnership Grants.
April 2023: A panelist & session chair at RECOMB 2023 to discuss hardware acceleration for omics analyses, Istanbul Marriott Hotel Sisli, Turkey.
April 2023: Invited to deliver two talks about Sparsified Genomics and Filtering Before Parsing at BIO-Arch workshop, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
March 2023: Delivered a talk about Genome-on-Diet at the workshop of Data Structures in Bioinformatics (DSB) 2023, TU Delft, Netherlands.
Feb 2023: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the International Society for Computational Biology & European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2023, Lyon, France. Welcome to submit!
Feb 2023: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the 22nd IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 2023), Florida, USA. Welcome to submit! Deadline: January 21, 2023
Jan 2023: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the 23rd IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2023. Welcome to submit!
Nov 2022: Invited by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) to deliver a talk and share experiences on starting graduate programs in Bioinformatics in the Arab region.
July 2022: Delivered a talk on Genome-on-Diet, GenStore, and SeGraM at the International Genome Graph Symposium (IGGSy) 2022.
July 2022: Presented our Technology dictates algorithms work at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2022.
May 2022: Delivered a talk at EFCL/CSNOW to attract women into the fields of computer science and computer engineering.
May 2022: Awarded TUBITAK UBYT 2022.
April 2022: Our work on Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges is published in Nature Methods, 2022.
Feb 2022: Invited to deliver the first talk of the System-on-Chip Lab speaker series at Khalifa University, UAE, on "Analyzing Genomes via Efficient HW/SW Co-Design".
Jan 2022: Nominated to represent ETH Zürich at the prestigious Global Young Scientists Summit 2022 for Nobel laureates
Dec 2021: Member of the BioPIM project funded by the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder program for accelerating genome analysis.
Dec 2021: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the 30th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2022), USA. Welcome to submit! Deadline: January 13, 2022
Nov 2021: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the 7th High-Performance Computing Conference (BASARIM 2022), Turkey. Welcome to submit! Deadline: February 7, 2022
Oct 2021: Elected as a member of the Higher Council for Innovation & Excellence (HCIE Diaspora), Palestine
Oct 2021: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the 21st IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 2022), France. Welcome to submit! Deadline: January 22, 2022
Oct 2021: Invited to serve as an external PhD examiner to the School of Engineering, Newcastle University.
Sept 2021: Awarded ETH Zürich Performance Bonus, a recognition of exceptional performance.
August 2021: Speaking at RECOMB 2021 about the urgent need for accelerating genome analysis
July 2021: Presented COVIDHunter at ISMB/ECCB 2021, Virtually, 29 July 2021. Talk Video, Slides (pptx) (pdf).
April 2021: Invited to deliver the keynote speech at The 9th International Conference on Computer, Control, Informatics and its Applications (IC3INA 2021). Welcome to submit!
March 2021: Awarded TUBITAK UBYT 2021.
Feb 2021: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the ISMB/ECCB 2021. Welcome to submit!
Jan 2021: Invited to serve on the Program Committee of the HiCOMB 2021. Welcome to submit!
Jan 2021: My interview with SAFARI on my recent and future work is now featuring the January 2021 issue of the SAFARI Newsletter.
Dec 2020: Our latest work, SneakySnake, is now available on Bioinformatics, arXiv, and GitHub.
Oct 2020: Our work, GenASM, on accelerating pre-alignment filtering and sequence alignment is accepted in MICRO 2020.
Sept 2020: Awarded ETH Zürich Performance Bonus, a recognition of exceptional performance.
Aug 2020: Our work with UCLA, Metalign, efficient alignment-based metagenomic profiling via containment min hash is published in Genome Biology
July 2020: Delivered the keynote speech at the ICITB 2020 on Enabling Intelligent Data Analysis.
Dec 2019: Honored to accept the invitation of the University of Tokyo to give talks and lectures on accelerating genome analysis, in Japan.
Dec 2019: Our work with UCLA, MiCoP, mapping-based method for accuratly profiling viruses and eucaryotes from metagenomics data is now published in BMC Genomics
March 2019: Joined the kickoff meeting of the first Swiss Genome Center and Swiss Health2030 assembly, Geneva, Switzerland
Feb 2019: Delivered a talk at Microsoft Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2019, Zürich, Switzerland